ManTracking
Tracking skills are valuable for SAR teams to quickly and efficiently locate and rescue individuals who might be lost or injured in remote areas. Training in man tracking involves learning how to interpret various signs and indicators left behind by a person's passage, understanding environmental factors, and effectively communicating findings to the rest of the SAR team.
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Trained trackers will use their knowledge of tracking techniques, environmental awareness, and understanding of human behaviour to interpret sign and track the direction and movements of missing persons.
Course Details
This course is suitable for:
Anyone involved in the search for lost or missing people

Fire and Rescue
HM Coastguard
Lowland Rescue
Members of UKSAR groups
Mountain Rescue
Police Officers
Research Institutes
SAR dog organisations
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to attend this course.
The course:
This course provides a toolbox of tried and tested skills and techniques and that are highly effective to searchers. The QSART ManTracking course includes a specialist module on human behaviours to locate and interpret of sign in the vicinity of abandoned cars and the valuable skill of reading bird dynamics to locate missing persons.
The course is delivered by Ian Maxwell.
Ian has delivered Mantracking courses across the globe, including Canadian Police Forces, North American and South American Police Forces. He has also delivered extended courses in Africa and specialist tracking courses to police forces and the SAR community in the UK and Europe.
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Ian has also spent several months every year working alongside US Border Patrol on the Arizona and Californian border with Mexico. He also was lucky enough to join the secretive all Native American Indians , known as the Shadowwolves. This was tracking at its finest.
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Ian has trained/help to train many of the other successful trackers who now have a made a name for themselves and run their own tracking courses/schools.
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Ian has published a book with Harper Collins. “ Mantracking. The Art of Tracking”
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The course is part theory and part practical, ending in a follow up using your tracking skills. There is also a short night tracking exercise. To maximise quality of learning, the course numbers are capped at an appropriate instructor/participant ratio.
£170 per course, inclusive of accommodation & meals. Once you have completed the registration process, we will send you all the information you need along with payment details.
Registration will only be possible if a course is available on the courses information page.